Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tenders
ProductionAI Impact Assessment
This job is relatively safe from AI automation and may even benefit from AI tools.
Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tenders with an AI automation risk score of 4%. Analysis includes 19 core tasks.
Why This Score?
- Work environment requires human interaction and presence
Responsibilities and Abilities
Key Responsibilities
- Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
- Getting Information
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
Required Abilities
- Near Vision
- Problem Sensitivity
- Oral Comprehension
- Information Ordering
- Category Flexibility
Key Tasks
Install equipment, such as spray units, cutting blades, or screens, using hand tools.
Test products for moisture content, using moisture meters.
Observe temperature, humidity, pressure gauges, and product samples and adjust controls, such as thermostats and valves, to maintain prescribed operating conditions for specific stages.
Clear or dislodge blockages in bins, screens, or other equipment, using poles, brushes, or mallets.
Set temperature and time controls, light ovens, burners, driers, or roasters, and start equipment, such as conveyors, cylinders, blowers, driers, or pumps.
Observe, feel, taste, or otherwise examine products during and after processing to ensure conformance to standards.
Observe flow of materials and listen for machine malfunctions, such as jamming or spillage, and notify supervisors if corrective actions fail.
Record production data, such as weight and amount of product processed, type of product, and time and temperature of processing.
Upskilling Courses
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Data Sources
Analysis based on O*NET data